The Uddham Singh Nagar police have booked five people under the Uttarakhand Freedom of Religion Act 2018 based on the complaint filed by a woman against her husband and relatives. Uttarakhand: US Nagar police book five under anti-conversion law The Uttarakhand Freedom Of Religion Act was passed in April 2018 making “forced or fraudulent conversions done through force or allurement” …
A day after recovering 33 turtles in Udham Singh Nagar district, the Uttarakhand forest department has arrested a man on the charges of wildlife smuggling in the district and recovered 20 turtles from his possession, an official said on Wednesday. Abhilasha Singh, divisional forest officer Terai Central forest division, said a forest team patrolling at Mahtosh road on Kashipur road …
Dehradun/Rudrapur: The Uttarakhand government will stop mentioning the phrase, “Poorvi Pakistan” from caste certificates issued in Udham Singh Nagar to members of the displaced Bengali community who migrated from erstwhile East Pakistan, chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said on Thursday. Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami addressed a delegation of people from Udham Singh Nagar led by Sitarganj MLA Saurabh …
The cabinet expansion by the newly-appointed Uttarakhand chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat is seen as an act of balancing the regional equation in state politics by inducting two legislators each from Garhwal and Kumaon regions and increasing the representations of the districts from five to eight. In the new eleven-member cabinet, there is a difference of just one minister between …
Farmers from Uttarakhand’s US Nagar district are leaving for Delhi with ration and some other essentials to join the protest against the three contentious farm laws. The farmers say they will camp in Delhi till the laws are withdrawn by the Central government and they are ready for laying a long siege on the capital. Farmers are being forced to …
